Subject: Re: NetBSD, Sparc LX and parallel port
To: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/14/1996 19:17:12
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Hmm...I don't know much about the Sun3* machines, but the sun4m bpp
> is based on the same DMA chip used by the espdma SCSI and ledma ethernet;
> I didn't think the sun3's had these. Or is the sun3x something completely
> different?
In an almost retrograde action, Sun produced the 3x line just after they
came out with the 4. The 3x includes the 3/80 and 3/4xx machines. The
3/80 has the same case as the Sparc 1, 1+, and 2. It also happens to use
the esp chip. It's really a weird cpu.
-J